Reception Masks for Masquerade Theme

My daughter’s wedding is being held in a large theatre in town. For the reception, they will be having a masquerade/Phantom of the Opera theme. The bridal party will enter the reception down a flight of stairs into the room to the song ‘Masquerade’ and we have made several different masks. Here is just a sampling. What do you think?

@ nontraditional: These are super easy to make, just time consuming. We bought our supplies at Hobby Lobby. We started with the plain masks in the craft dept, used spray adhesive and put fabric on the front & back. Then cut out the eye holes and trim around the perimeter of the mask. (Lace or satin works best)

Then we bought different trims to hot glue around around the outside of the mask. We used 18″ dowel rods, wrapped them in ribbon and hot glued them to the mask. Then we put the big feather and/or big flowers through the hole on the side. We finished by hot gluing smaller “filler” type feathers to make it more complete and finished by tying the ribbons to the stick and hot gluing to hold in place. Just make sure you use enough glue to hold everything in place.

We did 16 masks and spent a total of about $65. The cheapest we were able to find them pre-made online for was starting at about $40 a piece. They were fun to make.

Here are some close-ups for you to look at. Let me know if you want me to take pics of any other details to send to you. I’ll be happy to help!